Ronald Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray have won the third annual Michael S. Sweeney Award for their article, “Recovering Disabled Veterans in Civil War Newspapers: Creating Heroic Disability.”
Named for former Journalism History editor Mike Sweeney, the award recognizes the outstanding article published in the previous volume of the scholarly journal Journalism History.
Continue readingPam Parry of Southeast Missouri State is the 2020 winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History.
Parry’s “Episode 25: Eisenhower: The Public Relations President” is the top-rated episode of the podcast with over 400 downloads. Her frequent promotion of the podcast and use of the show with students also contributed to her selection as the year’s top guest.
Continue readingThe History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is pleased to announce that Pam Parry will be the next editor of its journal, Journalism History.
The History Division officers unanimously voted to accept the Publications Committee’s recommendation to select Parry, a professor of public relations at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, where she teaches media history.
“Dr. Parry is well qualified to perform the duties of editor in managing the journal and maintaining relationships with the publisher, editors, reviewers, contributors and potential contributors,” said Terry Lueck, chairwoman of the division’s Publications Committee. “We consider Dr. Parry an excellent match for the position and someone who is well qualified to lead Journalism History into a distinguished future.”
Continue readingThe History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication invites applications for editor of Journalism History.
Adopted as the official journal of the History Division in 2018, Journalism History is well respected as the oldest peer-reviewed journal of mass media history in the United States. Continuously published since 1974, this scholarly journal is a quarterly publication that features excellent scholarship on media history.
The division seeks an editor to start in August 2020 as an apprentice to the current editor until the new editor’s three-and-a-half-year term commences in August 2021. The term is renewable.
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The Journalism History podcast celebrated its first birthday earlier this month and recognized it with a cake at AJHA. The podcast has been downloaded in 47 states and 49 countries and has officially reached 4,000 downloads.
By Teri Finneman, University of Kansas, History Division Chair, teri.finneman@ku.edu
The History Division officers and the staff of our Journalism History journal are working this year on a marketing campaign to better promote the journal and journalism history more broadly.
Continue readingJournalism History earlier this year joined the ranks of academic publications distributed by Taylor & Francis’ highly professional production team. With a full volume in this arrangement nearing completion, Journalism History still features the articles, essays, and reviews that have drawn writers and readers to it in previous decades.
As a reminder to long-time readers as well as those new to the journal, changes in our submission process now requires use of the Editorial Manager site (https://journalism-history.org/submissions). Melita M. Garza still administers book review materials at melita.garza@tcu.edu.
By way of other updates, I can share a few noteworthy observations:
Continue readingUPDATE (9/10/18): The ratification poll has closed. Members approved the appointments by a vote of 103-0.
The History Division’s officers seek to appoint the following division members to the new Publications Committee, established to assist in overseeing the publication of Journalism History. In order to ratify the five appointments to this committee, members should vote yes or no via this Qualtrics survey. Deadline to vote is 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Sept. 7.
Because the committee is launching this year, two of the initial appointees will serve a three-year term and three will serve for two years. Thereafter, terms will be staggered.
Journalism History has another web home.
Following the decision last year by the division membership to adopt Journalism History as the division’s journal, a new section of the division website has been created to provide a front door to the journal. The new section contains background about the journal, information for contributors and subscription information. The editorial staff and corresponding editors are listed on the Journalism History page as well.
To get to the Journalism History page, follow the link in the navigation at the top of the division website.